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Extracts from this work were published in Art and Artist Vol 1, No.5, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. This work includes a discussion among Gustav Metzger, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Mark Boyle and Ivor Davies, held at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design on May 23, 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue is about Dorothy Wesley's (1905-1995) work as a prominent Afro-American librarian and bibliophile. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The artist writes in an Afterward, "The title looks back on my recent experience of creating an installation at and for the Freud Museum and at the same time, it locates something else which is entirely distinct conceptually. What I think is positioned here is an extended and episodic view of my personal sense of inhabiting an historically-specific museum of culture with permeable boundaries...Probably artists function by simultaneously enacting the reciprocal roles of curator and subject, therapist and client; I've worked by collecting objects, orchestrating relationships, and inventing fluid taxonomies, while not excluding myself from them." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes long essay by Tom Patterson on Jonathan Williams and his publishing house, the Jargon Society. Describes the trials and tribulations encountered by Williams in selling his Archive of the Jargon Society to various University Rare Book and Manuscript Collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue documents events of the May 1968 revolution in Paris through reproductions of newspaper clippings and photographs. The envelope is designed in the form of a record jacket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Stuart Mills. Issue reproduces two letters of grant rejection from the East Midlands Arts Association claiming the "presentation was too lavish in respect of both the selling price and the content." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Issue contains photographs taken by Stuart Mills of Stonypath, the home of Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The line drawings of the performance of Aikido, a philosophical martial art, that were done by Cutler Shaw illustrate the texts of Crane. A conversation between the two artists prefaces the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of installation instructions for the sound sculpture of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Illustrated on the recto is "Hommage pour Andre Breton." The collaged work includes a drawing by Trinkewitz of Jiri Kolar packing a parcel for Marvin Sackner and a letter from Sackner to Trinkewitz. The artist also writes about his current projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes an interview of Gadd. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds a copy of this work, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Moss writes, "Several years ago Iwas at a prant fair in Brooklyn and met a wonderful young artist named Chris Kline...I wondered what an alphabet book might be like using the rather eclectic set of symbols of the Paleo-Hebrew interpreted in Chris's brilliant style...I did the set of letters in black and white fleshed out somewhat into the third dimension. I told Chris what animal or object each letter originally was based on and let him do his magic. It took years to complete the book, but the result was amazing. Chris printed the whole book by hand in serigraphy in bright vibrant florescent colors. The whole is my attempt to explore, honor and memorialize in a very contemporary form this incrediibly simple but remarkably impactful invention - the Alphabet.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Moss writes, "The early writing systems were based on abstracting physical images...In Asia with ideograms and Egypt with hieroglyphics and cuneiform in Mesopotamia. In all these now literate societies, educated classes of scribes, writers and readers, developed to utilize the immense new power of the written word...But an equally revolutionary step in writing accurred right here [in Israel]. Early traces of this revolution were discovered in caves in the Sinai from around 1500 BCE. Someone had the brilliant idea that instead of using symbols to physically represent objects or ideas, what if the symbol just represented the initial sound of the word it depicted. It meant that instead of requiring thousands of characters to record language in written form, it could be accomplished with about twenty to thirty simple symbols! And thus the Alphabet was born.This breakthrough meant that insted of requiring years of hightly specialized study for exclusive and powerful elements of a...

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994) has emerged as one of the most significant figures of postwar European art whose practice is having an unfolding impact on younger artists. His powerful influence can be attributed to the material diversity of his work, its conceptual ingenuity, and his political sensibility. His work, though usually associated with the Italian Arte Povera group and Conceptual Art, has never quite fit into these contexts. Boetti ceased making Arte Povera--type objects in 1969 after a few years of association with the group, and his later choice of materials (embroidery, calligraphy, mosaic, kilims) put a gulf between his work and that of most artists of the 1970s and 1980s."The author, Mark Godfrey, is a curator at Tate Modern in London and a former lecturer at the Slade School of Art, University College London.Boetti had an idiosyncratic style of working, and he often collaborated with or commissioned others to execute his ideas, including his celebrated...